Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



1.. U. DANE.

Breech-Loading Fire-Arms.

No.150-,538, Pat'ntedMay5,1874.

Witnesses:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH o. DANE, or LA onoss'n, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BREE'CH-LOADING FIRE-ARMS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 150,538, dated May-5, 1874; application fihd March 4,1874. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, JOSEPH C. DANE, of the city and county of La Grosse and State of Wisconsin, have'invented a new and Improved Breech -Loadin g Fire -Arin; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly brokenaway; Fig. 2, a vertical section of slide.

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents the key, whose forward end passes into the notch of a lug or flange on the barrel to fasten the latter to the stock 13, and

is caused to slide back in a groove of the stock, in order to enable the barrel to be brought into position for receiving the car: tridge or load. 0 is a plate or piece swingingin the key, held forward by a spring D, and.

having a notch, 0', tl1at fits against the projeotion e of a slide, E, that is operated like the trigger.

This "device is simple, clreap, easy of vappli cation, and entirely effectual.

Having thus described. my invention, What I claim as new, and-desire to secure by Letters Patent," is

. The slide E E, forming both a part of the trigger-guard of a firearm-and a part of the a mechanism for operating the key A, as described.

JOSEPH O. DANE.

Witnesses FRANK P. COQ'KE, JAS. J. HOGAN. 

